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A Renaissance portrait of Sultan Mehmed II ... The artwork, painted by the Venetian painter Gentile Bellini in the 15th century, depicts Mehmed alongside another apparently younger man, whose ...

and Renaissance painter Gentile Bellini is sent to keep the peace by painting a portrait demanded by Sultan Mehmed II. Since Islam forbids personal images, he finds himself fighting to survive and ...

and Renaissance painter Gentile Bellini is sent to keep the peace by painting a portrait demanded by Sultan Mehmed II. Since Islam forbids personal images, he finds himself fighting to survive and ...

The exhibition reaches its climax and conclusion with a number of works by Gentile Bellini created in deference not to Byzantium but to its conqueror, Sultan Mehmet II, ruler of the Ottoman Empire.

Discovered by Turkish researchers, a centuries-old epic poem written to honor Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II ... is no different from Italian painter Gentile Bellini’s portrait of Fatih.